While Li Zhi, Xu Wei and Zhao Shizhen were eating steamed fish in Mubin Villa, Chen Mu was looking at the map in the Eastern Military Palace, fourteen miles away.

A map covering a complete three walls.

The map of the Western Wall is the southernmost point of Makino, the Greater Port and Riowei. Islands are marked on the large coast, and to the north are Europa from Spain and France.

The map of the East Wall, at the southernmost end is Wangxia Prefecture, which also emerges, and contains the entire Asian Prefecture under the Eastern Military Prefecture.

The maps of the two walls have one thing in common, and they are becoming clearer and clearer.

The blank area was slowly filled, and the map that was pasted but fine early version was also revealed, and the latest map after the victory in various places was replaced.

Chen Mu, sitting cross-legged on the ground, lifted up his armor skirt, pulled out two battlefield maps with topographic maps from the battle report maps in front of him, and tried to review a battle that took place thousands of miles away, and figure out what changes were happening on the sea.

The battlefield map is written in the low-level pavilion body, which says, "Puzhou Battle."

These war reports came from Ying Ming, the general of Puzhou, who was sent to the Rio Guard by a tobacco ship that had recently returned from Spain, and were escorted by commander Lu Feng to the Gulf of Mexico.

As of the time of surrender of the Tower of London, it was difficult to find any command art that belonged to the general in the entire battle, the enemy's military and civilian organization level, artillery projection ability, armor rate and tactical level are not as good as Spain.

As for strategy?

A country that is 800 miles away from its coast, what is the situation in North Korea during the Ion Chen War? What are the eight paths lost between ten months? What strategy can we talk about?

Instead, it attracted Chen Mu's attention to the business.

Li Yuxi's business.

After having the nearby stockpiling port of Puzhou, Hexingsheng merchants have the second safe haven outside the Spanish Daming Port in the waters close to Europe.

It is not a literal way to avoid wind, but a risk avoidance. Neither warships nor armed merchant ships can attack the Ming merchant ships near the port of the Ming Dynasty.

This has brought about a significant change in the power of maritime merchants. From the perspective of the Eastern Military Palace, the number of ships loaded with tobacco belonging to Li Yuxi is increasing.

In any era, in any ethnic group, the number of people who take the first step is always the minority.

They not only need enough courage and wisdom, but also luck that others cannot match.

When the road ahead is unknown, luck and luck can overwhelm everything.

But once the first step is taken, real money and silver will become legends and enter people's ears, and successors will flock to them.

In addition to military and political functions, Chen Mu was very clear about the division of this land.

The most fundamental thing is that Asia is the production site of raw materials such as hardware, cotton, gems and other materials in the Ming Dynasty.

However, the transportation capacity of this era cannot keep up with the strong production capacity of the Oriental Military Palace on this land after assimilating the indigenous people.

Therefore, on the other hand, it is also a product processing area for the Ming Dynasty to Europe and Africa, such as fur and tobacco, which have low costs and high profits, and are not important to the Ming Dynasty.

Just get the accounts of a few ports, and every month, Asia exports much goods to Europe on the other side of the East Ocean every year, is within Chen Mu's control.

It’s not that other places cannot go to sea, and the long coastline can go to sea anywhere, but there are only a few places where bulk goods can be processed in a centralized manner, and there are only a few places where good road facilities are available.

Of course, you can go to sea in other places, but you can transport the cargo along the road and the local garrisons to the other places, and drive the merchant cargo ships to the coastal patrol fleet of the military palace to the other, and also transport them onto the ship without a trestle.

The cost has exceeded the customs taxation.

Ship taxes at the Dongyang Military Palace show that more and more merchants choose to buy tobacco from Li Yuxi's tobacco factory and take ships to sea to traffic in England.

The share of tobacco in Li Yuxi's ships and cargo warehouses is decreasing, while furs, coats, rock sugar, dyes, and some processed gems and metal jewelry made by the Dongyang Military Office are increasing.

These ships sailed from Makino's Long Beach port to England, and eventually came to Riowei after four months to six months or even more.

What they transported out was a cheap ship, processed and paid high taxes tobacco, and brought back gold, ivory and war horses.

War horses are the most inappropriate cargo. Unless the sailing is extremely smooth, these living creatures will die in large quantities at sea and will become sick even if they can be transported to the port.

However, transporting the horse to Daxi Port will be directly purchased by the military government at a price several times higher than the market price, which is equivalent to reducing part of the tax.

At the east coast port of the Eastern Military Palace, merchants with extraordinary luck emerge almost every month.

Comparing the goods they carry when they go to sea and return, you can usually get more than tens of benefits; those with poor luck can also make three or five times; and those with the best luck have made 536 times the profit.

They do not kill people or attack cities, which is all the business of the military government. They do not even sell slaves. They just trade a simple trade, but trade a golden route belonging to the Ming people.

Normally, a ship carrying 300 boxes of tobacco can make a net profit of 30,000 taels to Pril, and in France, it can make a net profit of 19,000 taels to silver in Spain.

After all, England has few people and is close to Makino, so the tobacco market is not so scarce. Merchants are happy to clear the cabin at Puli and buy other cargo to sail to Europe.

After all, France and Spain have a large population, and the spreading smoking habits and unsaturated markets have made merchants profitable.

The merchant who made the most money was dumping the entire ship of tobacco in France, leaving sixteen boxes of Muye cigarettes into Baishan, renting fourteen bags of baggage ships, and joining Chen Jiujing's sailing fleet to the port of Daming, Spain.

On his ship, he carried a bow, sword, spear, shield, and chain mail worth nine thousand taels of silver.

The French war had just ended, and these inferior soldiers who acquired the profits of Confession and the French feudal lords were extremely cheap.

These things allowed him to arm all kinds of troops in Sanghai and many countries and tribes in Africa that were caught in war, in exchange for gold.

The gold of a whole ship of Dafu was 320,000 kilograms. The gold that was brought back at one time was even more than the gold and silver that Chen Mu planned to send back to the local area this year.

Even the water and grain were driven back to Daxi Port at a high price from Chen Jiujing's boat - he almost cried for the tax on Chen Mu.

Of course, in the new triangle trade that swept across the East Ocean, the most profitable one is never the merchant.

It is to build roads for them to transport goods better, build cities for them to have a better environment, and build shipyards on the coast for them to go to sea on a larger scale. It is the hard-working Eastern Military Palace.

It was Mr. Chen who curled his lips to read the battle report and map.
Chapter completed!